Driver visibility under XP virtual Machine

[punkinsmasher]

I have just acquired a tower and am trying to run the demos. I have a 64 bit machine running Win 7 and have opened an XP Virtual machine under Windows Virtual PC.

The unvirtual side sees the USB cable and loads the LibUSB-Win32 Devices driver. CodeWarrior on the virtual side does not see the driver and so I can not erase/program flash.

Similarly, I have a USB to serial cable for the serial connection to the tower. The unvirtual side loads the driver and assigns it to COM5. The virtual machine is not even aware of the new com port.

Being new to virtual machines, can anyone direct me as to how these device drivers on the real machine can be seen on the virtual?

[vier_kuifjes]

You can't access hardware devices like USB ports using Microsoft Virtual PC (I had this problem myself once). It should work with VMWare though...

[kef · Accepted solution]

I didn't try it on x64 windows, but "Windows XP Mode"-virtual machine on x86 Windows 7 is just fine with USB devices. Every time you attach USB device,  you should click on it in USB drop down menu in XP Mode window. This will attach USB device to XP. Doing this first time will make XP asking for XP drivers. At least USB<->serial converters are working fine.

[vier_kuifjes]

I didn't know this was possible in Windows 7 XP-mode. In a "regular" MS virtual PC environment this isn't possible.